Improvement in cow-fetters



PATENT ()FFIGE.

HENRY -J. SADLER, OF MECCA, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN COW-FETTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 151.918, dated June 9, 1874; application filed February 14 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY J. SADLER, of Mecca, in the county of Trumbull and State of Ohio, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Gow-Fetters; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation. of the same, reference being had to the annexed'drawings, making apart of this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawing is a representation of my device as applied. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the same. Fig- 3 and 4 are detail views of the same.

This invention has relation to fetters for preventing cows from kicking; and it consists in a novel construction of the hooks which clasp the leg of the animal, in combination with a rigid bar on which these books are secured; also, in an angular strap for fastening the fetter on the leg, in combination with a retaining-pin and flanged block, and a rigid fetter-bar, as will be hereinafter explained.

The following is a description of my improvement In the annexed drawings, A designates the fetter-bar, which is a piece of Wood or other rigid substance, curved as shown. B B designate hooks for claspin g the leg of an animal above and below the hough; and 0 represents an angular strap, the ends of which are firmly secured to the bar A between the hooks B B, and the tongue of which is perforated for fastening it to a pin, a, on a plate, D, having flanges d (1 formed on its ends for preventing the tongue of the strap 0 from turning, and thus becoming unhooked from pin a. This pin-plate D is rigidly secured to the fetter-bar between its extremities. Each hook B is constructed with a rectangular eye, 0, through one end, which receives the end of the fetterbar A, and, by means of a wedge, f, driven into the end of bar A, the hook is rigidly secured thereon, and prevented from being turned.

The hooks B are made of cast metal, and are constructed with ribs on their backs to give them strength and rigidity.

I am well aware that a fetter-bar having end hooks and a middle strap-fastening are not new, as shown in the patent of Sadler and Spencer, dated July 8, 1873, No. 140,594, and therefore I do not claim such devices, broadly but NVhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination, with thefetter-bar A and strap 0, of the socket-hooks B, applied over each end of said bar, and the central strapfastening D, substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

HENRY J. SADLER. \Vitnesses JEFFERSON PALM, N. W. PALMER. 

